Thx, "carbonized" Games have a "layer" so they don't need classic. I found out that EliteForce 1.0 uses classic on my mini and therefore stutters regularly (ATI.ControlPanel for Classic to activate vsync possible?) But the update to 1.1 brings a carbonized version that runs superbe on my mini and look gorgeous!!

Games like DarkForces (no 3D) runs very poorly, it's slow and disortet under classic, but superbe on my PM7300/8.6. Therefore OS9 resp. Gaming on a G4-Mini under Classic should not be a goal for me, because it leeds to a dead end, but lots of fine OSX-stuff for the powerful, small and silent mini. A very nice machine. If it has got native OS9 support it would be by far the best classic PPC/OS9/OSX machine. So I'll have to go native OS9 machine.

- I have some serious issues in classic on my G4-mini.
- The keyboard commands lag very strange and Lara has missing textures.
- Is there any chance to optimize the game or the classic environment to get a better compatibility?

Both games rune fine in 1024x768@32Bit. I installed the "ultimate-bloodpatch" to JK2 and the "dismemberment-patch" to JK3.
These games have fantastic textures. I am able to go for "high", "extra" seems to be for 64MB-Vram and more. If I can get an
silent update g4 with 64MB Vram I will test this option.

I am not quite sure how to play they best. Updating to the last PPC Version and then no-cd upgrade, or using the latest UB with
no-cd upgrade. I have the originals here, but I HATE changing the CD-Roms in order to play if there is nothing read from the CD
beside the copy-protection. But that's another story.

Doomsday Engine also runs quite well (Doom1, Doom2, Heretic1, Hexen1). I have the upgrades for the textures, the music and the models,
but it looks better in original to me.

Another fantastic game is RedFaction. It's an OS9 title, but Version 1.2 has the OSX binary. It looks great and runs perfect on the G4 mini.

AVP1 runs quite well on the G4-Mini, AVP2 does not start on 10.4. I'll have to check out, why it refuses to start.

This old MacRaider page has some helpful information. The early Tomb Raiders used an early OpenGL library that doesn't play nice with OS X. Suggests you download MacGLide and tweak a couple of settings.

I already knew that page and tested "macglide", but I am not fully satisfied.
The Videos do not play correct and the game is not as smooth as it is on a OS9 machine,
but it's OK. What settings should be tweaked?

You can play around with the resolution and refresh rate settings in the TR1 setup utility. If that doesn't help, maybe increase the memory allocated to the game or test different versions of MacGLide.

I recently bought a G4 1.5 64MB Vram and this machine is even better then the previous. It comes with 10.4.2.
I just upgraded to 10.4.11 wich is he desired OSX Version I would like to run on this machine.

A really big improvement are the latest ATI-Drivers which allow to Change the gfx-Settings and herefore override
the game-setings.